\ " " -,.,;;, " INVESTMENT INFORMATION CENTER "- i ! , t l . ... -: . . t... . vøJ # . . !II. .- . 29 ;- r "" "Well) I asked them) Ruth) and they said they don)t anticipate a full-scale major depression.)) to have backing. So it must be some- thing in him. You've told me what he has. No"\\ tell me what he hasn't." "There really is no way of telling, at this stage. Harley hasn't done enough concert work for me to tell. It still re- mains to be seen, for instance, if he has the performer's temperament." "I understood you to say he did have " temperament. "Musical temperament was what I had in mind. A performer's tempera- ment is something else; and just as hard to describe. Let me try. I've had stu- den ts who were virtuosos in this room, but in front of an audience they messed up every time. Perhaps not every time. Some of them will put on enough of an act to get a good start on a career, even a brilliant start. But somewhere along the war there'll be trouble. Their wife will decide it's not good for the baby to be dragged around on a long European tour. And they'll give in. A performer doesn't care what his wife decides. He doesn't care whdt you think or I think. It's between him and his d . " au Ience. Marie Berthelot had much more to ,..... <<. A" t j </ . .. ,- fJ.' . ,-,'"', 't \ II. -. { I \ .1 J \' J \ "'if ,l.1 -." ,. \ " i I J \ J .d '" J J _ .ftHT \. / l' ..... , . . say, but she stopped. She did not know how far she ought to go with Harley's father in exploring the doubts she had abou t the boy. The last thing she wanted was that Harley should learn at this point that there were any doubts at all. She thought, I must remember to ten him not to discuss any of this with the boy . Vaughn was leanIng forward too intently. ""That you're talking about is drive," he said. "The drive to succeed. That's not restricted to concert artists. I've seen enough of that in my own pro- f . " eSSIon. The old woman shook her head. "No. Not just dnve. It's a special quali- ty. Churchill has it. \V ould you like to know who else? Napoleon in Egypt saying, 'Soldiers, from the summit of yonder pyramids, fort) centunes look down upon you' Lincoln at Gettvs- burg. Sarah Bernhardt." Mme. Ber- thelot nodded toward one of the pictures on the wall. " My old teacher, Busoni, knew her I'll tell you a story he told me, and you'l1 see what I mean \\"hen Sarah was a very bttle girl, she lived with her mother and her aunt, both cocottes. She was sIttIng in a second- story window and saw her aunt going by with a gentleman. She asked to go along, but the aunt refused her Ap- parently It wasn't one of those gentle- men who liked to have little girls along. So Sarah threw herself out of the win- dow and broke I forget how many arms and legs. She was a performer making a point to a difficult audience. Not tem- per-temperament. Instinctive. The occasion called for a drastIc gesture, and she produced. J. P. Morgan wouldn't have thought of it in a million years." "I don't kno"\\T about Sarah Bern- hardt," Vaughn said. "I do know a little about Lincoln. He wasn't just a performer." "N one of the great ones are Just performers. They have all the other stuff. But they won't he able to put it over unless they are performers, too. Do you remember Lincoln's stunts as a trial lawyer? Do you remember how he finished Douglas off in those debates? No one but a performer could have pre- served a public face with that half-mad wife gnawIng away at hIm year in, yedr out. There you had a sustained perform-